Lord Haldon

Spy

1882

Chromolithograph

12 x 7 3/8 inches

Spy's feature caricature in Vanity Fair.

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We had a piano and plenty of fun and chaff, and under cover of the evening's amusement I took in "Piggy" Palk. I was introduced to the most attractive of the ladies and enlisted her services on my behalf over the eyeglass. My friend at once introduced "Piggy" to her, and she introduced him to produce the eyeglass. [Continued below]

Photograph and text 2023 by Philip V. Allingham.

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Other Political Vanity Fair Caricatures

  • Augustus Charles Hobart-Hampton (Hobart Pasha)
  • Sir Robert William Edis
  • Sir August Manns
  • Sir Benjamin Disraeli (Statesmen, No. 1) 30 January 1869
  • Alfred Scott-Gatty, C.V.O. (Garter King-at-Arms) 1905
  • Prime Minister W. E. Gladstone